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PL. CDLVIII. 
CATASETUM MIRABILE coen. 
THE ADMIRABLE CATASETUM. 
CATASETUM. Vide Lindenia, vol. 1, p. 59. 
Catasetum mirabile. Pseudobulbis robustis, elongato-conicis; foliis lanceolatis; racemis submultifloris; floribus 
amplis; sepalis membranaceis, anguste oblongo-ligulatis, longiuscule acuminatis, multinerviis, leviter divergentibus, 
sepalo dorsali approximatis; labello infero, crasse carnoso rigidoque, fere semi-orbiculari angulis basilaribus rotun- 
datis, margine integerrimo vel vix denticulato, apice obscure emarginato, cucullato-saccato, sacco lato satis profundo 
fundo rotundato ; columna elongata, apice longe rostrata, antennis elongatis divergentibus laevibusque. 
Catasetum mirabile CoGN. supra. 
=g his Catasetum, although not superior to those included in the group 
i exhibited at Brussels and London, in November last, is nevertheless 
el Of very great beauty, and the above name seems to us to be in no way 
unmerited. 
As in the case of the two preceeding forms, we look upon C. mirabile as 
the product of a natural cross between some form of C. Bungerothi and any 
of the numberless variations of C. macrocarpum. Apart from the colouring, 
which is very different, it is tolerably well allied to C. Luciani, though it can 
be at first sight distinguished by its rather smaller flowers, its much narrower 
sepals, the lateral ones being less curved forward (and thus coming nearer 
to C. Bungerothi), its petals notably broader and more oblique, and by the 
basal lobes of its lip, which are rounded instead of simply obtuse. 
C. mirabile flowered at the end of november in the establishment of L’Hort1- 
CULTURE INTERNATIONALE, where it had been received from the same locality as 
the preceeding forms. 
Si ce Catasetum n’éclipse pas tous ceux qui composaient le groupe que 
L’HorticuLture INTERNATIONALE exposait 4 Bruxelles et A Londres, au mois de 
novembre dernier, il est cependant d’une beauté hors ligne, et le qualificatif 
admivable que nous croyons devoir lui appliquer ne nous semble nullement 
exagéré. 
Les fleurs sont quelque peu moins amples que celles des précédents, quoique 
encore de trés grandes dimensions. Les sépales sont d’un jaune verdatre; les pétales, 
trés minces, sont d’un jaune trés pale légérement nuancé de vert, avec des macules 
d’un pourpre foncé peu nombreuses dans le tiers médian, mais confluentes en une 
large tache pourpre trés foncé dans la partie inférieure; le labelle est d’un beau 
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